The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Hardcover

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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, HardcoverMacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter. Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this need to matter and the various "mattering projects" it

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